Episode 50(!): Maia Kobabe
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with author and illustrator Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir), creator of the memoir Gender Queer. (Buy eir book!)Topics include:
- Spivak pronouns
- Low inventory at the orgasm store
- "Deserving" trans-related surgeries
- Coming out to your first Girl Scout troop
- Educating TERF-adjacent relatives
- Also: Tuck does unlicensed therapy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What? Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to |
| 0:20.0 | understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective |
| 0:25.6 | Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:38.3 | Hi friends. I hope you're all recovering from our Good Gay month. I've been sick all week and that's why I sound this way. Enjoy. This week on the podcast I am this way. Enjoy. This week on the podcast I am delighted to share my chat with |
| 0:46.4 | Maya Co-Babe author of the graphic memoir Gender Queer. Maya and I talk about |
| 0:51.4 | spivic pronouns, orgasms, Harry Potter, turf adjacent relatives, coming |
| 0:56.7 | out to your first Girl Scout troop, and top surgery. |
| 1:01.1 | It feels like giving myself something like too big of a present. Like I don't deserve |
| 1:06.4 | something this big that I want this much that is not going to benefit anyone but myself. But before we get to that, |
| 1:15.0 | anyone but myself. |
| 1:13.0 | But before we get to that, a real quick, big hello, big welcome, big thank you |
| 1:17.3 | to everyone who found us through Spotify or Pocketcasts |
| 1:20.7 | or Queer Public or some other cool gay thing. |
| 1:24.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:25.0 | Please subscribe and stick around through the end of the show |
| 1:28.2 | to find out all the ways you can join our cute trans community. |
| 1:31.7 | There's a lot and I don't want you to miss out. |
| 1:33.7 | Also a huge, huge thank you to everyone who joined the Patreon last week or up their pledges. |
| 1:39.2 | I am all caught up on sending out Patreon rewards, so if you haven't received yours by like the end of this week, |
| 1:45.6 | please reach out to me and I'll send it again. If you haven't yet, please consider |
| 1:49.7 | supporting trans media at patreon.com slash gender so that you get our cool |
| 1:54.5 | newsletter and maybe some stickers or glittery pin and I get to be a full-time gender |
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